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Governor appoints TYC chief of staff who never passed on news of Pyote scandal

By Gritsforbreakfast

Whoever is appointed the new executive director at the Texas Youth Commission won't get to choose their own chief of staff. Gov. Perry moved Alphonso Royal today from his slot at the Governor's criminal justice division to the position of chief of staff slot at TYC, reported the Dallas News.Mr. Royal's is not a new name in the TYC saga. He was the point man charged with being the Governor's "eyes and ears" when the Pyote scandal was first reported. The Dallas News investigation put Royal at the center of whatever information flow existed between TYC and state officials about the West Texas sex scandal, but he apparently did not pass on the hot-button information, the News reported last March ("Mistakes, mismanagement wrecked TYC," March 13, 2007): In February 2005, when the governor's office learned of the Ranger's sex-abuse investigation in Pyote, a 36-year-old junior staffer named Alfonso Royal was Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).